Chief Marketer Staff

• Agencies

  Samsung Joins the Olympic Promo Pack

  Samsung Mobile is catching a ride on the Olympics wave with an online scavenger hunt for gold medals that has a $100,000 grand prize at the finish line.

• Agencies

  McDonald’s Seeks Votes for Crew Talent Contest

  McDonald’s is looking for customer feedback to help choose the winner in its employee Olympic video contest.

• News Briefs

  GOURMET.COM: the online site of “Gourmet” magazine has launched the Cookbook-a-Day Giveaway

• Carl Edwards Distributes Backpacks for Office Depot

  NASCAR star Carl Edwards gave out backpacks to school children in Indianapolis yesterday as part of an charitable initiative of the Office Depot Foundation.

• Spammer Escapes Prison

  Jail apparently didn

• Amazon.com Income More Than Doubles

  Amazon.com Inc. posted net income of $158 million for the second quarter, a 102% surge over $78 million in the prior year.

• Select Comfort Posts Loss in Quarter

  Select Comfort Corp, posted a net loss of $6.6 million for the second quarter, compared t to net income of $2.9 million in the prior year

• Harte-Hanks Income Drops

  Harte-Hanks Inc. reported net income of $18.2 million for the second quarter, a decrease from $22.9 million last year.

• Agencies

  Meet the Broker: Marlene Scarlett

  Today we meet Marlene Scarlett, sales manager at Listdata Management Services Inc. She’s too young to know what list brokerage was like before computers

• Listline e-Newsletter 7/24

  Names have been assembled for consumers whose applications for credit
  cards were declined in the last 12 months. Most of these 3.5 million
  individuals are employed, but may have poor or intermittent incomes. The
  sources are direct mail and the Internet.